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− a country's historical ancestors (e.g. the USSR as the forefather of Russia);
− the border(s) of a country;
− a country's membership of a group of countries and/or an organization;
− the GDP of a country;
− the various codes for referring to a country, etc.
All this information can automatically be integrated into a basic procedure of
geographical location such as the one presented above, and made available to any
interested audience
5
. The FAO example also demonstrates the interest of being
vigilant - constantly and as systematically as possible - as regards the
interoperability
of the descriptive metadata produced via a particular approach to the
analysis or description of corpora of data.
Finally, it seems important to underline another fact: that a
sequence of
geopolitical location
used in the context of one analysis of audiovisual corpora may
be
re-used
, exactly as it is or following certain modifications and adaptations in the
most diverse use contexts - e.g. in the context of the analysis of geopolitical data
relating to a country, a group of countries, etc.
Indeed, here we see new problems in knowledge engineering rear their heads,
such as putting in place libraries of
models
and
bricks*
(
schemas
or
sequences
) of
models of description, completely inter-defined and shared by the most diverse of
users working in the context of the constitution, conservation and
diffusion/appropriation of digital knowledge heritage.
6.4.Geographical-physicallocationandcontextualization
Alongside so-called geopolitical and administrative location, as has already been
discussed, there is a second form of spatial location which is concerned with the
geographic location per se
of a knowledge object thematized by an audiovisual text,
i.e. its (possible) location in a
naturalphysicalspace
.
5 Technically speaking, this integration is done by synchronizing either the conceptual terms
of the conceptual schemas or sequences of an ASW model of description with the ontology or
resources external to ASW. This synchronization is done using the OntoEditor tool, which we
use to define the metalinguistic resources for analyzing audiovisual corpora and archives (see
Chapter 11, section 11.8 for a brief presentation of this tool).
